Mulie doe. Film at eleven! :)

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Was out yesterday in the woods, and filled my Doe draw tag. Was a good day.

Took a bunch of pictures of the process of field dressing that I use. Will get those organized and post. Later though.

The .223 takes another one! I have some pretty graphic pics of the internal results. Will post links rather than posting them directly, though.

Was Boom, she took two steps, faceplant, all done. Couldn't ask for better!

Today, the cutting begins again!

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Trev
 
Skinned her today.

Pictures in the next day or two.

Insides were pretty messy. Entrance was through the ribs, punched through the lungs (both) and made burger out of the top of the heart. Two holes in the offside ribcage. Bullet, or parts thereof, not recovered yet.

Had some family obligations, and it is cool enough to hang for a day or two, so not rushing to cut it.

Not much of a hunting story, I was 300 yards or so from the road, and bounced 4 does from their beds. Two bailed and of the two that didn't, the larger stopped on the other side of a patch of brush, probably to try to figure out what the threat was that got the others going.
I ducked down, had a good clear line on her under the branches, found her ribs, and hit her. She took two steps, walking, and then nosedived. Done.
About 45 yards, downhill. No calculator or spreadsheet required.
Good thing she didn't know that a .223 wouldn't work, eh?


Cheers
Trev
 
trevj said:
The .223 takes another one! I have some pretty graphic pics of the internal results. Will post links rather than posting them directly, though.


Cheers
Trev
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I'm speaking for my self here, but I would encourage photos, people new to hunting can learn and do learn from guys with experience.
 
The doe.


The entry wound.


Battery died on the camera before I got a shot of the other side of the ribcage. Will try to get the picture before I cut it out. Two holes, should be a couple big(ish) bullet parts there.

I'm posting a link, rather than posting the picture. Some folks are...sensitive.. about the biological necessity to eat, and what their food looks like on the inside. But, it's the lungs and heart, lungs as they came out, heart has been cut loose. Nice inch round hole through both lungs, top of the heart pretty much reduced to burger.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s200/45-70/IMG_1393_zpsb1c4512d.jpg

I took a series of pictures showing the gutting process I use, mostly, and may get around to writing that up in the next few days. It stays fairly clean (I have gutted a deer while dressed in clothes that I wore in to a restaurant afterwards, they stayed clean enough) and it tend to keep the mess down to a minimum.

Oh. Bullet was a 50 grain Winchester bulk soft point. 24.5+/- grains of H335. Not going very fast, which was to my benefit. Again.

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Trev
 
Found most of the remnants of the bullet. It/they traveled from the entry hole (shown above) to the bone on the off side leg, just above the elbow joint. Soaking the bits now (to remove as much meat as possible)to see what the weight of them all is.

My back is feeling like hell, I got the front stripped, trimmed ground and wrapped, and the backstraps are cleaned up and waiting attention later, in the fridge.

Came to 26 pound (more or less, packages). I'd say beer time, but, things to do yet today.



Cheers
Trev
 
BigUglyMan said:
What's that rifle? It's purdy!
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It's a small frame Sako that I picked up a few too many years ago. It was on consignment for about what Brownells wanted for a bare action at the time.

Supposed to be a Douglas barrel, the wood is pretty nice but for a check that runs out the side of the stock, and the Nikko Sterling scope is what it is...

I like it! :)

Weighed the remains of the bullet and got right on 35 grains, mostly in two largish chunks of core and a fair portion of the jacket.

Honestly, it surpassed what I had expected of it by a fair stretch. Getting in and making a mess, I expected, almost getting out the far side, not so much.

Cheers
Trev
 
Thanks for sharing the pics, looks like that "unsuitable" hunting caliber did a great job once it got past the ribcage. Did it nick the rib coming in? I'm thinking it might have gotten turned at that point and gave it a good opportunity to drop all it's energy where it counted. The lugs were hit perfectly, heart pretty messed up too. Very nice shot!
 
Yeah, I'm really pleased with the results there.

Surprised as heck to find as much of the bullet, having made it as far as it did.

I may have grazed the rib on the way through but not enough to count for much, I think.

I would have been very satisfied with, and was expecting, about a 6 inch range of penetration, which would have been a right mess inside, without the exit side damage.

As it was I think it amounted to about two ounces or so of meat got trimmed around the passage wound, with the rest of the shoulder and leg meat going through the grinder.

I am going to credit placement, and having the standing broadside presented to me as being fairly critical to the success of this. Not a cartridge for slamming through a shoulder, or a Texas heart shot, by any means.

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Trev
 
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